Algorithmic Warfare: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Warfighting

The defence domain is about to be completely disrupted by the rise of intelligent machines. Unlike older programmable computers these machines do not give the same output for the same input every time. Instead, like you, these artificial intelligences continually learn, evolve ‘on the job’ and display emergent behaviours that may surprise, for good or bad.

Successfully using these smart machines will need even smarter humans. Intelligent machines are simultaneously powerful and brittle, brilliant and childlike, dazzling and incomprehensible. Their application to warfighting will need to be undertaken carefully, prudently and realistically. This book aims to help that process. The age of algorithmic warfare has arrived. We need to get smarter—and quickly.